L'Anisfield-Wolf Book Award è un premio letterario statunitense assegnato annualmente ad opere che aiutino a comprendere il fenomeno del razzismo ed analizzino la complessità e ricchezza della cultura umana.
Istituito nel 1935 dalla poetessa e filantropa Edith Anisfield Wolf, è amministrato dalla Cleveland Foundation dal 1963.
Suddiviso in 4 sezioni, ad ogni vincitore delle singole categorie viene assegnato un premio di 10000 dollari.
Albo d'oro Narrativa 2026 - Carrie R. Moore per Make Your Way Home 2025 - Danzy Senna per Colored Television 2024 - Teju Cole per Tremor 2023 - Geraldine Brooks per Come il vento (Horse) ex aequo con Lan Samantha Chang per The Family Chao 2022 - Percival Everett per The Trees 2021 - James McBride per Il diacono King Kong (Deacon King Kong) 2020 - Namwali Serpell per Capelli, lacrime e zanzare (The Old Drift) 2019 - Tommy Orange per Non qui, non altrove (There There) 2018 - Jesmyn Ward per Canta, spirito, canta (Sing, Unburied, Sing) 2017 - Peter Ho Davies per The Fortunes 2017 - Karan Mahajan per Stella bianca, acciaio rovente (The Association of Small Bombs) 2016 - Mary Morris per The Jazz Palace 2015 - Marlon James per Breve storia di sette omicidi (A Brief History of Seven Killings) 2014 - Anthony Marra per La vita è una cosa semplice (A Constellation of Vital Phenomena) 2014 - Adrian Matejka per The Big Smoke 2013 – Eugene Gloria per My Favorite Warlord 2013 – Laird Hunt per Kind One 2013 – Kevin Powers per Yellow Birds (The Yellow Birds) 2012 – Esi Edugyan per Questo suono è una leggenda (Half-Blood Blues) 2011 – Nicole Krauss per La grande casa (Great House) 2011 – Mary Helen Stefaniak per The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia 2010 – Kamila Shamsie per Ombre bruciate (Burnt Shadows) 2009 – Louise Erdrich per Il giorno dei colombi (The Plague of Doves) 2009 – Nam Le per I fuggitivi (The Boat) 2008 – Junot Díaz per La breve favolosa vita di Oscar Wao (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) 2008 – Mohsin Hamid per Il fondamentalista riluttante (The Reluctant Fundamentalist) 2007 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie per Metà di un sole giallo (Half of a Yellow Sun) 2007 – Martha Collins per Blue Front 2006 – Zadie Smith per Della bellezza (On Beauty) 2005 – Edwidge Danticat per Il profumo della rugiada all'alba (The Dew Breaker) 2004 – Edward P. Jones per Il mondo conosciuto (The Known World) 2003 – Stephen L. Carter per L'imperatore di Ocean Park (The Emperor of Ocean Park) 2003 – Reetika Vazirani per World Hotel 2002 – Colson Whitehead per John Henry festival (John Henry Days) 2000 – Chang-rae Lee per Una vita formale (A Gesture Life) 1999 – Russell Banks per Cloudsplitter 1998 – Walter Mosley per Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned 1997 – Jamaica Kincaid per Autobiografia di mia madre (Autobiography of My Mother) 1996 – Madison Smartt Bell per Quando le anime si sollevano (All Souls' Rising) 1995 – Reginald Gibbons per Sweetbitter: A Novel 1994 – Judith Ortiz Cofer per The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry 1993 – Sandra Cisneros per Fosso della strillona e altri racconti (Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories) 1990 - Dolores Kendrick per The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women 1988 – Nadine Gordimer per Una forza della natura (A Sport of Nature) 1988 – Toni Morrison per Amatissima (Beloved) 1985 – Breyten Breytenbach per Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel 1969 – Gwendolyn Brooks per In the Mecca 1962 – Gina Allen per The Forbidden Man 1954 – Langston Hughes per Simple Takes a Wife 1951 – John Hersey per Il muro di Varsavia (The Wall) 1949 – Alan Paton per Piangi, terra amata (Cry, the Beloved Country) 1948 – Worth Tuttle Hedden per The Other Room 1947 – Sholem Asch per Quarantottesima strada (East River) 1945 – Gwethalyn Graham per In terra e in cielo (Earth and High Heaven)
Poesia 2026 - Gbenga Adesina per Death Does Not End at the Sea 2025 - Janice N. Harrington per Yard Show 2024 - Monica Youn per From From 2023 - Saeed Jones per Alive at the End of the World 2022 - Donika Kelly per The Renunciations 2021 - Victoria Chang per OBIT 2020 - Ilya Kaminsky per Deaf Republic 2019 - Tracy K. Smith per Wade in the Water 2018 - Shane McCrae per In the Language of My Captor 2017 - Tyehimba Jess per Olio 2016 - Rowan Ricardo Phillips per Heaven 2015 - Jericho Brown per The New Testament 2015 - Marilyn Chin per Hard Love Province
Saggistica 2026 - Bench Ansfield per Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of an American City 2025 - John S. Jacobs e Jonathan D. S. Schroeder per The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography 2024 - Ned Blackhawk per The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History 2023 - Matthew F. Delmont per Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad 2022 - George Makari per Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia ex aequo con Tiya Miles per All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 2021 - Vincent Brown per Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of An Atlantic Slave War ex aequo con Natasha Trethewey per Memorial Drive 2020 - Charles King per Gods of the Upper Air 2019 - Andrew Delbanco per The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War 2018 - Kevin Young per Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News 2017 - Margot Lee Shetterly per Il diritto di contare (Hidden Figures) 2016 - Lillian Faderman per The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle 2015 - Richard S. Dunn per A Tale of Two Plantations 2014 - Ari Shavit per La mia terra promessa (My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel) 2013 – Andrew Solomon per Lontano dall'albero (Far From the Tree) 2012 – David Blight per American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era 2012 – David Livingstone Smith per Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others 2011 – David Eltis e David Richardson per Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2011 – Isabel Wilkerson per Al calore di soli lontani (The Warmth of Other Suns) 2009 – Annette Gordon-Reed per The Hemingses of Monticello 2008 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali per Infedele (Infidel) 2007 – Scott Reynolds Nelson per Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend 2006 – Jill Lepore per New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 2005 – A. Van Jordan per Macnolia: Poems 2005 – Geoffrey C. Ward per Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2004 – Ira Berlin per Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves 2004 – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc per Una famiglia a caso (Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx) 2003 – Samantha Power per Voci dall'inferno (A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide) 2002 – Quincy Jones per Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones 2002 – Vernon E. Jordan Jr. e Annette Gordon-Reed per Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir 2001 – David Levering Lewis per W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 2001 – F. X. Toole per Lo sfidante (Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner) 2000 – Edward Said per Sempre nel posto sbagliato: autobiografia (Out of Place: A Memoir) 1999 – John Lewis e Michael D'Orso per Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement 1998 – Toi Derricotte per The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey 1997 – James McBride per Il colore dell'acqua (The Color of Water) 1996 – Jonathan Kozol per Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation 1995 – Brent Staples per Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White 1995 – William H. Tucker per The Science and Politics of Racial Research 1994 – David Levering Lewis per W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader 1994 – Ronald Takaki per A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America 1993 – Kwame Anthony Appiah per In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture 1993 – Marija Gimbutas per La civiltà della Dea (The Civilization of the Goddess) 1992 – Melissa Fay Greene per Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction 1992 – Peter Hayes per Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World 1992 – Elaine Mensh e Harry Mensh per The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality 1992 – Marilyn Nelson per The Homeplace 1991 – Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, Graham Hancock per African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa 1991 – Walter A. Jackson per Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 1991 – Forrest G. Wood per The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America 1990 – Dolores Kendrick per The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women 1990 – Hugh Honour per The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1 1989 – Taylor Branch per Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1989 – Henry Louis Gates Jr. per Collected Black Women's Narratives 1989 – George Lipsitz per Life In The Struggle 1989 – Peter Sutton per Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia 1988 – Jeffrey Jay Foxx e Walter F. Morris, Jr. per Living Maya 1988 – Abigail M. Thernstrom per Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights 1987 – Arnold Rampersad per The Life of Langston Hughes 1987 – Gail Sheehy per Spirit of Survival 1986 – Donald Alexander Downs per Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment 1986 – James North per Freedom Rising 1986 – Barton Wright e Clifford Bahnimptewa per Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary 1985 – David S. Wyman per The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945 1984 – Jose Alcina Franch per L'arte precolombiana (Pre-Columbian Art) 1984 – Humbert S. Nelli per From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans 1983 – Richard Rodriguez per Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez 1983 – Wole Soyinka per Aké: gli anni dell'infanzia (Aké: The Years of Childhood) 1982 – Geoffrey G. Field per Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain 1982 – Peter J. Powell per People of the Sacred Mountain 1981 - Carol Beckwith e Tepilit Ole Saitoti per Maasai people 1981 – Jamake Highwater per Song from the Earth: American Indian painting 1980 – Urie Bronfenbrenner per Ecologia dello sviluppo umano (The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design) 1980 – Richard Borshay Lee per The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society 1979 – Phillip Vallentine Tobias per The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa 1978 – Allan Chase per Legacy of Malthus 1978 – Maxine Hong Kingston per La donna guerriera (The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts) 1977 – Richard Kluger per Simple Justice 1977 – Michi Weglyn per Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps 1976 – Lucy S. Dawidowicz per The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945 1976 – Thomas Kiernan per The Arabs: Their History, Aims, and Challenge to the Industrialized World 1976 – Raphael Patai e Jennifer P. Wing per The Myth of the Jewish race 1975 – Eugene D. Genovese per Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made 1975 – Léon Poliakov per Il mito ariano. Le radici del razzismo e dei nazionalismi (The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe) 1974 – Charles Duguid per Doctor and the Aborigines 1974 – Michel Fabre per The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright 1974 – Albie Sachs per Justice in South Africa 1974 – Louis Leo Snyder per The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History 1973 – Pat Conroy per The Water Is Wide 1973 – Betty Fladeland per Men & Brothers 1973 – Lee Rainwater per Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum 1972 – George M. Fredrickson per The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914